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What makes the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt so entertaining is that unlike most sprinters, who look like tense blurs of twitching muscle, he appears relaxed. Even while smashing a world record, he seems like he might stop at any moment to send a text message.

From today's WSJ story by Nando Di Fino, Austin Kelley and John Paul Newport

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It is sort of lucky that he didn't get injured. After Beijing everyone had to guess how good he was because he slowed down in the last 20 meters!

He looked comfortable in the last 10 or 15 this time. Think he could go faster if only someone could be found to push him.

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What makes the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt so entertaining is that unlike most sprinters, who look like tense blurs of twitching muscle, he appears relaxed. Even while smashing a world record, he seems like he might stop at any moment to send a text message.

From today's WSJ story by Nando Di Fino, Austin Kelley and John Paul Newport

Probably he would still win. Maybe not with a world record.

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Oh good point. But... who will break the record then? ;)

 

I suppose one could say that for sure there will be many more Bolts and Greenes and Johnsons to come in the future but maybe they will come rarer and rarer now?

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Oh good point. But... who will break the record then?  ;)

 

I suppose one could say that for sure there will be many more Bolts and Greenes and Johnsons to come in the future but maybe they will come rarer and rarer now?

The infinite prime runners theory?

 

Prove it!

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